List of Famous people born in New Jersey, United States of America

Richard Varick was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who has been referred to as "The Forgotten Founding Father." A major figure in the development of post-Independence New York City and State, Varick became the 45th Mayor of New York City in 1789 and served eleven consecutive one-year terms until 1801.

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society.

John Moody was an American financial analyst, businessman and investor. He pioneered the rating of bonds and founded Moody's Investors Service. Moody's Manuals are still issued, carrying on the tradition begun by Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities and continued by the annual Moody's Analyses of Investments.

Matthias Ogden was an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolutionary War, and served in various political positions afterwards.

Jacob Burnet was an American jurist and statesman from Ohio. He served as a U.S. Senator.

John Lambert, was a New Jersey politician who served as a Representative, a U.S. Senator and as Acting Governor of New Jersey.

Isaac Tichenor was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the third and fifth Governor of Vermont and United States Senator from Vermont.

Victor Arthur Kilian was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.

Dorothy Irene Hann was Miss America in 1932.

George Bruce Halsted, usually cited as G. B. Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his own work and his many important translations. Especially noteworthy were his translations and commentaries relating to non-Euclidean geometry, including works by Bolyai, Lobachevski, Saccheri, and Poincaré. He wrote an elementary geometry text, Rational Geometry, based on Hilbert's axioms, which was translated into French, German, and Japanese.